Not exactly "by cutting a wire" but with a console command, the Amdahl
470/V5 could be upgraded to the performance of a V6, and the 470/V7
could be upgraded to a V8 through the use of the 470 ACCELERATOR feature.
We had that feature on a V5 implemented as a console macro called
"gofast" and a
I used the Struble book also, at La Tech in the '70's (probably '75 or
so). Mine is of the second printing in 1971 and has a 1969 copyright
and it is still on my bookshelf. It is based on the 360; the transition
from 360 to 370 was easy in those days.. The price stamped on the
title page
that is in the field.
Probably the reason you don't see this so much is there is rarely a need for
it.
But when you need it, you need it.
Larry Chenevert
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From: Robert A. Rosenberg
There never was a plain old 'JES'.
"I thought the spooling subsystem in OS/VS1 was called JES."
You are correct: JES
Did that (VS1/JES) through a lot of of the '70's.
Then VS1 under VM, then SVS, then DOS, VS1, and MVS under VM (different
place), then finally MVS.
At 08:50 -0800 on 01/22/2016, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Compile error:
There never was a plain old 'JES'.
"I thought the spooling subsystem in OS/VS1 was called JES."
You are correct: JES (for VS1).
Through most of the '70's did VS1, VS1 under VM/370, SVS,
then at a different place,
